WINTER MEETING. 261 



DISCUSSION. 



C. M. Williams — I indorse every word Mr. Schnell has said. I 

 am a market gardener myself and I know that Mr. Schnell is a good 

 one. 



W. M. Bomberger, Iowa — The paper suggests a mixed industry, 

 when all Missouri is talking one apple and one or two kinds of peaches. 

 I think we are all making mistakes. If I had to plant 160 acres of ap- 

 ples I would not plant all Ben Davis. I have twenty acres of vine- 

 yard, twenty acres of berries and ten acres of plums. In Missouri I 

 would want some peaches as well as some Ben Davis apples. Fruit- 

 growing for profit don't depend on shipping. Study your home mar- 

 ket. This year I sold about 500 bushels of berries in my local market. 

 Next year I will sell 1,000 bushels, but I don't depend upon the rail- 

 roads. I send out my berries in wagons as far as thirty miles some- 

 times. When they know my berries are coming they don't buy shipped 

 berries. 



Mr. Dubois — I have official information of the fact that the apple 

 which Eve gave to Adam was a Ben Davis, hence the fall of man. 



Mr. Chandler — Mr. Bomberger says there is money in grapes at 2 

 cents per pound. We got much less than 2 cents for grapes sent to 

 Kansas City. Every thing was there on the market. It was first 

 dumped on the market and then dumped into the river. We should 

 develop our home market. 



Mr. Reed, Wis. — There is considerable interest in horticulture in 

 Wisconsin, but more in market gardening than in fruitgrowing. This 

 is the result of our cold climate. I represent one of the best agricultural 

 and horticultural papers in the country — the Farmers' Review of Chi- 

 cago. 



Mr. Dubois — The Farmers' Review is a supplement to the Fruit- 

 Growers' Journal. 



Mr. Schnell — I have been bothered very little with borers. When 

 we wash the trees about the the first of May and the first of August, 

 we are careful to remove any that may be in the trees. We seldom 

 lose a tree. The wash keeps the bark of the trees nice and clean. 

 People ask me what I do to my trees to make them so nice and fresh. 

 It is the wash that does it. 



Mr. Fell — It is very important to keep grass and weeds from the 

 base of the tree ; they harbor insects and mice. 



Prof. Whitten— If tree washes are made with one-fifth skim milk 

 to four-fifths water, they will stick to the tree much longer. I think 

 the white color will keep the heat from the trunk of the tree. I recom- 



